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exersizeing its influence on your
actions I do not mean by this that
you shall be dull and stupid if you
live up to the princeles you will be
lively you cannot help it or at least
I cannot do I oveheard our lieutenant to say
that he believed that I was the happiest
man in the regament and why is
it I will tell you it is becaus I
have lived up to the three principals that
father requested me to & they were these
remember the duty you owe to your
heavenly father and to your earthly father
and to Uncle Sam, and you see that
in obeying my father I also obyes
officers while others of loose characters
think it one of the greatest [taskests?]
in the world to obey and consequently
they cannot be happy nor enjoy them
selves here I should be sorry to get
a wild romantic and unsetteled disposition
on account of my being away from home
and in the army. and I want you to
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